Cellar Maxxing: which house pays most for each wine
The same wine hammers differently from house to house, and the house that does best for Burgundy is not the one for Napa. Upload your cellar list and we rank the housesFrom two years of sold lots at fourteen auction houses. Every figure is the hammer per 750 ml bottle with the buyer's premium removed. for every wine on it, then add up what the cellar comes to at the best house, or split across two or three.
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1. Upload your list
A CellarTracker export, or any file with a column of wine names. Vintage, size and quantity columns are used when present. Up to 2,000 wines. Larger? Talk to us.
Column names (optional)
2. Ranking the houses
2. What your cellar comes to
Where to send it
| Using | Houses | Estimated hammer | Over the typical |
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By region
The houses that have hammered each region's wines highest, and how much of your list is there.
| Region | Wines | Bottles | At the typical hammer | Highest-paying houses for the region |
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The houses, head to head
| House | First choice for | Ranked for | Whole cellar there |
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"Whole cellar there" sends every wine to that one house, at the typical hammer where it has no record for the wine.
3. Open the ranking
Which houses, which wine goes where, each wine's ranking, and the spreadsheet. Included with a plan, or bought on its own.
Included with your plan
Buy this ranking: $30
One-time purchase, no subscription: $30 to 500 wines, $50 to 1,000, $100 to 2,000. You have seen the total first.
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Monthly: one ranking of up to 500 wines a month. Yearly: up to 2,000 wines a quarter. Free trial: one ranking of up to 100 wines. Counted apart from your cellar valuation.
3. Wine by wine: the spreadsheet
An Excel file with, beside each wine: the match and its region, the typical hammer and 24-month average per bottle, the three highest-paying houses, what it comes to at the best house, and every house it sold at in the last 24 months. The plan is on a second sheet.
How it is worked out
- Hammer prices, premium removedEvery figure is the hammer per bottle, scaled to 750 ml, with the buyer's premium taken off. It is before the seller's commission, which each house sets and many negotiate, so read it alongside the house's terms.. Per 750 ml bottle, before the seller's commission.
- The typical hammerThe median of every sale of that wine and vintage at every house in the last 24 months. One unusual sale cannot move it. is the median of the wine's sales in the last 24 months.
- The 24-month averageThe plain average of the same sales. It is the figure most people know, but one unusually high or low sale pulls it up or down, so the houses are compared on the median instead. is the plain average of the same sales.
- The plan sends each wine to its highest-ranked house in use. A wine no house in the plan has a record for counts at the typical hammer.
- Your list is deleted within 24 hours, or a week after the ranking is opened, and never added to our data. Privacy policy.